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Book Title: Garden History the Journal of the Garden History Society volume VI Numbers 1, 2, 3, 1978

Author: Various authors

ISBN: 05071243mno

Publisher: Garden History Society

Year Published: 1978

Our Normal Price: £24.75 GBP ($33.17 USD)

22% Discounted Price: £19.31 GBP ($25.87 USD)

Description: The Garden History Society 1978 ,volume VI parts 1, 2, and 3 , green paper covers with pictorial fronts , list of contents to back : approximately 20 x 25.5 cm tall: part 1 , 89 pages, part 2, 71 pages, part 3, 75 pages : black and white photographic illustrations, diagrams and plans. Synopsis: Voume VI, 1978 numbers 1, ( Spring ) 2 ( Summer) and 3, (Winter) of the Garden History Society Journal , a generously illustrated, scholarly publication founded in 1965 for those interested in Garden History, aimed at 'including garden and landscape design and their relation to architecture, art, literature, philosophy and society; plant introduction, propagation and taxonomy; estate and woodland planning and maintenance and other related subjects'. Contents- part 1 : editorial. Her Majesty's Silver Jubilee. Summer meeting in Nottingham. Coming events and notices. Notes and queries. Book reviews. Articles as follows: - Edward Cooke, Landscape Gardener, a Victorian par Excellence by Mavis Beattie. Gillyflower and Carnation by John H Harvey. Ilexes at Holkham by W O Hassall. William Robinson: A Portrait by Betty Massingham. Register of current research. Membership of the society and other subscriptions. Part two: - editorial. The society's activities. Book reviews. Articles as follows: -The Garden at Lotherton Hall by Nancy Boydell. A Repton Garden at Haileybury by R G C Desmond. An addendum to the article ' William Robertson a portrait ' by Mrs Betty Massingham by Ruth Duthie. Clumps by W O Hassall. Izmir, 250 Years Ago: a Famous Botanical Garden by Evelyn Lyle Kalcas. A Short Account of Several Gardens near London by T R Slater. Louis XIV's last Manière de Montrer les Jardin De Versailles by Christopher Thacker. Ralph Austen, an Oxford Horticulturalist of the 17th Century by James Turner Dr, Carvallo and the Absolute by Kenneth Woodbridge. Membership in the society and subscriptions. Part 3: – Obituaries. Tour to Gardens in Portugal. Coming events. Book reviews. Articles as follows: – The Supply of Plants in the North West by John H Harvey. Joseph Spence of Byfleet (part one) by RW King. 'To Protect and Promote the Science of Gardening': the Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland by E Charles Nelson. Gardening in Lucknow . Membership of the society and subscription. Condition: clean and good overall

Condition: See Above

Dustcover: No

Binding: Paperback

Type: Used Books

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